The Hook-Cut-Caption prompt system that turns one long video into 5-8 short clips using Claude - no editor, no software installs.
You film one long video a week and it just sits there after you upload it once.
Auto-clip tools in CapCut or similar pick random ten-second chunks that don't make sense without context.
Writing hooks from scratch for every clip takes longer than editing the clip itself.
Captions from auto-generated tools are full of typos you have to fix by hand every single time.
You know shorts could bring new viewers to your channel, but repurposing eats the one hour you have between filming sessions.
Hiring an editor costs more than your channel currently makes.
You've tried 'just winging it' with captions and hooks, and the clips quietly underperform your long-form video.
You end every week with one full video and zero repurposed clips, again.
Every week you don't repurpose is a week your long-form video's best 30 seconds never reaches anyone outside your existing subscribers.
Algorithms reward channels that post consistently across formats - a channel posting only long-form once a week is invisible to the shorts feed entirely.
The moments in your video that would actually hook a stranger get buried at minute twelve, watched by nobody but your existing audience.
Every month you skip clipping is a month of watch-time data the platform never gets to test your content against a colder audience.
Competitors clipping their own long-form into daily shorts are compounding an audience while your channel stays flat.
The Hook-Cut-Caption Method runs your video transcript through three focused Claude passes instead of one vague 'find good clips' prompt. Pass one, Extraction, scans the full transcript for moments with a complete setup and payoff that make sense with zero outside context - the actual bottleneck in manual clipping, since most 'good' moments only work if you've watched the whole video. Pass two, Hook, takes each surviving moment and generates three distinct hook angles - curiosity, stakes, and direct claim - so you're picking between real options instead of writing one hook cold. Pass three, Caption, breaks your chosen segment into on-screen text chunks timed to natural speech pauses, ready to paste into whatever captioning tool your editor uses. Each pass has its own tuned prompt in the swipe file, and they're designed to run in sequence in one Claude conversation so context carries forward without you re-explaining your niche each time. The method doesn't touch video files - it works entirely on your transcript, which means it works whether you edit in CapCut, Premiere, or on your phone.
Turn any long-form video transcript into 5-8 ready-to-cut short clips with hooks, on-screen caption text, and a posting order, using nothing but Claude and copy-paste prompts.
Log every moment, hook, and caption decision in one place across every video you clip.
Proven opener structures for extra hook variety when the standard three options don't feel right.
A fill-in calendar for spacing your clips across the week using the Posting Order framework.
If you go through the walkthrough and run the prompts on your own transcript within 30 days and don't find the workflow useful, contact support for a refund. We ask that you actually try the prompts on real content first, since the value here is in running them, not reading about them.
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You already have the raw material - the video is filmed and sitting on your drive. What's been missing isn't more footage, it's a repeatable way to decide what's worth cutting, how to open it, and when to post it, instead of re-solving that puzzle from scratch every single week. The Hook-Cut-Caption Method turns that puzzle into three prompts and a tracker you run once per video. Nothing here promises you a viral clip or a guaranteed view count - no honest system can promise that. What it promises is that you'll stop staring at a timeline wondering where to start, and start every clipping session already knowing your candidate moments, your hook options, and your caption timing before you open your editor.